Monsters are rarely raised alone

Eighteen-year-old Aarav Mehta has been haunted by the same dream for as long as he can remember.A winter night. Stone steps leading into still water. And a woman walking slowly into the pond.In the dream, Aarav knows who the woman is.His mother.But according to every official record, she died in a hospital the night he was born.Seeking answers, Aarav turns to Dr. Ira Varma, a psychologist known for studying memory and trauma. What begins as a simple attempt to understand a recurring dream soon unravels into something far more unsettling.As Aarav digs deeper into a winter long buried in the past, a quiet neighbourhood in Banaras, an old ledger hidden beneath a courtyard, and a rumour that once destroyed a family begin to surface.But the truth about that night was never simply forgotten.It was protected.